Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher, no stranger to controversy himself, is stridently opposed to the proposal. In a letter he sent a letter to the Judiciary Committee, he had this to say:

"If this proposal becomes law it will dismantle 20 years of progress in investigating and prosecuting gang members in Minnesota. Officer safety will be jeopardized because officers will not have access to information regarding gang history. Investigations will be slowed because officers will not be able to identify the combatants and their motives without complete information regarding their gang association. And finally, the prosecution of gang motivated offenses will be curtailed.''

He went on to write that, "dismantling the computer systems that track these criminal gang members would send us back to the pre-computer 'stone ages' of law enforcement."